Attachment for telephones.



N. B. PARSONS.

ATTACHMENT FOR TELEPHONES.

APPLICATION FILED .nms, 190s.

Patented Oct. 5, 1909.

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UNITED- STATES PATENT OFFICE.

NEWELL B. PARSONS, OF CHICAGO,- ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR T0 BELD ENMANUFACTURING COMPANY, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, A CORPORATION OF ILLINOIS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 5, 1909.

Continuation of application Serial No. 322,866, filed June 22, 1906.This application filed January 6, 1908. Serial No. 409,385.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, NEWELL B. PARSONS, a citizen of the United States ofAmerica, and a resident of Chicago, county of Cook, and State ofIllinois, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Attachments forTelephones, of which the following is a specification.

My invention pertains to attachments for telephones, for holding awriting pad suitably for the convenience of the telephone user.

In my present invention I have providedmeans for holding a writing padand adapted to be attached to wall telephone sets not having the usualwriting shelf.

Three figures of drawings accompany this description, in which Figure 1shows a front view of my attachment, Fig. 2 shows a side view and Fig. 3shows a side view of my attachment as applied to a telephone equipmentof the class indicated above.

The first or pad-h0lding element consists of a bracket 1, a paper shelf2, screw-threaded rivet-posts 3 3 holding the bracket and shelftogether, and means for holding a pad of paper u n the shelf. In thefigures, the means emp oyed consists of extension mem bers of therivet-posts 3 3 screw-threaded to receive the nuts 4 4 adapted to clampthe bar 5 and the pad 6, both of which are slipped upon the extensionposts before the nuts 4 4 are applied. The bracket 1 is adapted toengage the front of the telephone box, and an extension arm 1 integralwith the bracket 1 extends backward beyond the edge of the main portionof the bracket 1 an turns upwardly in hook form to engage the backsurface of the door of the telephone box by passing around the lowerprojecting edge of the door.

he second or clamping element consists of a rod 7 whose upper end isformed into hook shape as at 8 to engage the upper projecting edge ofthe door of the telephone box and whose lower end is threaded to receivea win -nut 9 after passing loosely through the racket 1, whereby thehook 8 and the bracket 1 may be drawn together to clllamp the door ofthe telephone box between t em.- It will be noted that, as the wing-nut9 is tightened upon the rod 7 after being applied to the telephone dooras shown in Fig. 3, the extension arm 1 first will engage the lower edgeof the door, and the pad-holding element as a whole, being a rigid unitwith the bracket 1, then will swing upon the contact of arm 1 and theedge of the door until the hook end of extension 1 engages the backsurface of the door and until the upper or main portion of the bracket 1engages the front surface of the door, .when further movement will beimpossible and further turning of the wing-nut 9 will make the papershelf firm in itsposition by placing a stress upon the structural partsof the attachment. The pad thus will be held rigidly in position,without possible motion in any direction whatever, and inclined at anangle depending partly upon the conformation of the bracket 1 and partlyupon the thickness of the door of the telephone box.

It is found that, when only a limited amount of motion is permittedbetween the two elements as above described, this attachment is welladapted to mount upon.

telephone boxes having projecting edges, the complete attachmentgripping the upper and 'lower surfaces of the box and bearing also uponthe front surface in a manner that provides a rigid and reliablemounting for the pad of pa er.

I do not wish to limit myself in all respects to the exact detailsherein shown and described, and I understand that many modifications maybe made without departing from the spirit and scope of my invention.

' Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire tosecure by United States Letters Patent is:

1. In an attachment for a telephone box door, a pad-sustaining bracketcomprising an inclined plate having at its upper part an edge engagingthe front surface of the telephone door and having at its lower part anextension extending back below and beyond the lower edge of the door andturnmg upward in hook form and engaging the back surface of the door;and a bolt engaging the upper edge of the door and drawing the twodescribed edges of the bracket against the two described surfaces of thedoor, substantially as described.

2. In an attachment for a telephone door,

- a vertical clamping rod hookin over the of the bracket by engagementwith the door 10 top edge of the door; a pad-brac et having ispermitted, substantially as described. two door-engaging Wing-like arms,one en- Signed by me at Chicago, county of Cook gaging the front surfaceof the door and and State of Illinois, in the presence of two the otherengaging the back surface of the Witnesses.

door, said arms being perforated for the NEWELL B. PARSONS. passage ofsaid clamping rod loosely where- Witnesses: by an alinement of thebracket by engage- E. E. LIVINGSTON,

ment with the rod is avoided and alinement C. O. MCCULLOUGH.

